| 21. | The first preterite stem is used in the preterite, for the subjunctive ).
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| 22. | In German and Dutch it also remains in the present tense of the preterite presents.
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| 23. | The preterite is simpler in the sense that it uses one verb instead of two.
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| 24. | NB . The perfect is used in many cases where English would have a simple preterite.
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| 25. | As novels are written in preterite, the tense system is shifted and perfect becomes pluperfect.
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| 26. | Tenses ( present and preterite ).
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| 27. | The verb " zullen " is the most irregular of the preterite-presents.
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| 28. | The stem vowel of the indicative preterite singular is often different from that of the plural forms.
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| 29. | This is followed by the simple past tense ( preterite ), and then the past participle.
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| 30. | It has preterite and conditional forms, which are often used with present and imperfect meaning, respectively.
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